Category: General

A few days ago, I was jumping into my car and used the unlock button on my car keys when a colleague of mine noticed that a nearby garage door had opened. I thought nothing of it, he thought that it was freaky, so to prove to him it had nothing to…

I have recently got a request to help with two separate Win98 installs. Funny that Win98 is still being used. The first was on an old laptop and the second was to help get software that only works on Win98 up and running. I decided to embark on (w…

Unless you can afford to put a few million dollars in a bond as collateral against any damages you may do driving, you will need auto insurance to drive in Canada. Insurance companies are private companies that make a lot of profit, yet the genera…

Since I am a programmer, many people come up to me with requests to fix their computers (I know right!, I need to get this thinkgeek shirt). Anyway one of the issue I face often is getting all the drivers up and running after a reformat, especiall…

Ah, how much I hate daylight savings time, it is really too much work to go turning back all the clocks. You know whats even worse, my cell phone!. I guess my teleco provider keeps track of time, and I believe I selected the option to pickup the t…

Over the past week or two my hard disk showed signs of illness, I ignored those signs which resulted in severe illness of the drive. I usually keep my machine running. Moreover, I am running KDE4, so buggy behavior was quite expected on my behalf….

Last weekend my new 701SD arrived in the mail. So far I am loving it. I installed KDE4 + debian squeeze on it and its amazing. For fonts I reduced everything to 7pts, and made my menu bar (panel) autohide. So far I have no issues with the 800×480 …

An Operating System Launch Party, is one where people get together to celebrate the release of a certain operating system. Often in these parties, guests learn about cool new features of the operating system and get to install it on their machines…

Doesn’t it bug you when you see commit messages that say ‘Updated my code to have this cool new feature’, I am going to confess I do that too. However, it makes no sense. Ofcourse the code was updated, if it wasn’t then you wouldn’t have anything …

I have always been procrastinating on installing a blog engine at http://nassrat.ca. My latest idea was to write a blog in Django, who isn’t am I right ?! Hopefully this will be the first of many posts. Sending posts via email will definitely make…